In The News
Toluca Lake Student featured on ETMLA website
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day
Click to see the video of our very own TL student talking with women of the NASA JPL team!
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Toluca Lake Elementary and
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Mrs. Hernandez's class and the Toluca Lake Garden
featured in a local magazine - click for article link
Comcast Cares Day:
Volunteers Revamp Toluca Lake Elementary School

Toluca Lake Students win a trip to Johnson Space Center in Houston

Two Toluca Lake Elementary Students win a trip to the Student Science Symposium at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas! [Only 10 elementary schools from the entire United States were chosen - Toluca Lake was one of them and the only elementary school from California!]
Toluca Lake Elementary School became a part of the NASA Explorer School (NES) program this year. As a NES school, Toluca Lake Elementary is able to make use of a plethora of fine lessons provided by scientists, engineers, and educators from NASA and JPL. One of these lessons involved designing a prototype “lunar plant chamber” enabling astronauts to grow food on the surface of the moon.
Students worked in groups of two to create their design and build their prototypes. Each model had to provide ways for the astronauts to generate electricity, recycle water, and have a housing unit connected to the plant chamber. The top two student groups sent power point presentations of their work to NASA. One of these teams has been selected as the only elementary school in California to go to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to present their project at the Student Science Symposium. Fifth grade students, Caitline Molina and Ali Freas will be accompanying their teacher, Dennis Hagen-Smith, to Houston in early May. “I am very proud of the hard work the students did on this challenging project,” commented Hagen-Smith.
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Toluca Lake Elementary student wins Vecmobile Art Contest!
